Trousers-guard.



No. 628',I93. Patented July 4, I899. J. a. WATSON.

TROUSERS GUARD.

(Application filed June 10, 1898.)

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JOHN G. WATSON, OF OSWEGO, NEW YORK.

TROUSERS-GUARD.

SPEGIFIGATIOII forming part of Letters Patent No. 628,193, dated July 4, 1899. Application flled June 16,1898. Serial No. 683,574. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN G. WATSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oswego, in the county of Oswego and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trousers-Guards; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention has relation to trousersguards, and is an improvement upon my invention set forth in my application for patent, Serial No. 681,059, filed May 18, 1898.

The object of the invention is to simplify the construction, and thereby reduce the cost of manufacture, while at the same time preserving all the points of advantage claimed for the device set forth in my former application for patent.

With this object in view the invention consists in certain features of construction and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter fully describedand claimed.

In the-accompanying drawingIhave illustrated my invention in perspective.

In said drawing the guard consists of a piece of spring metal, such as is usually employed in the manufacture of devices of this character.

a a denote curved portions which are adapted to embrace the ankle and having sufficientplay to permit of a free circulation.

Z1 Z7 denote parallel contacting jaws extending forwardly from the curved portions a a, and c 0 denote similar jaws that extend rearwardly from the curved portions a a and are connected by a loop (1. These two sets of jaws are adapted to clamp the legs of the trousers so as to prevent them from being wrinkled, which is the result that attends the clamps or guards now in use.

In applying the device the jaws are separated, as is usual in devices of this class, and after the trousers-legs have been arranged in position the jaws are allowed to come together and hold them so that they will not wrinkle.

What I claim is A trousers-guard consisting of a strip of spring metal formed with semicircular curves a a,-the forwardly-projecting contacting parallel jaws b b, and the rearwardly-projecting contacting parallel jawsrc c, the latter being connected by a loop d, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM C. GODDEN, JOHN TIERNAN. 

